Oer.

  As I was happily sleeping, I was suddenly woken up and blinded once again by that darn light.

  “Don’t look straight into the light, pal. You’ll hurt your eyes. It’s just something you get used to down here."

  "e on over here, son. e on! Walk to daddy!”

  “e to daddy.”

  Guess it’s that time to py my role as a baby once again, god I 't wait till I'm older.

  "Gu-gu-ga-ga-dada."

  The very instant I ended my string of baby noises with dada, my dad's face brightened up a 100 fold.

  “You make it!”

  “There you go! My goodness! Just a year old, and already walking like a pro. Your mother would have been so proud. Listen, kiddo, I know you don’t like it when daddy leaves you alone, but I need you to take care of yourself for a minute. You just stay here while daddy runs to his office. You’ll be okay, pal. I’ll be ba a bit.” He said before walking out of the room I was sleeping in moments ago.

  About time he left me alone for a bit, haa.

  A few seds went by before an idea popped into my head.

  Hmm, I suppose I have enough time to get my hands on that special book since he should be gone for a little while.

  Upon finishing that thought, I opehe lo the pypen door that I was in and walked over to my toy box and started rummaging through it in search of that special book.

  Ahha, I found it.

  Okay, let’s see what I’m w with here. Hopefully, my stats are the same as they were in Fallout 3 and if not, I hope they aren't too bad, otherwise I could be pying this life on hard mode.

  Opening the book up, a holographic s suddenly appeared in my vision, dispying my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats.

  | S.P.E.C.I.A.L. |Strength: 5Perception: 5Endurance: 5Charisma: 5Intelligence: 5Agility: 5Luck: 5

  11 Points Left

  Good, my stats are the same as they were in Fallout 3 and thanks to the Gifted trait, I got quite a few extra points to spend as well, an additional six of them to be exact. Alright where do I want to start... I know I o put extra points into intelligeo make up for the decrease in xp gain from skilled so I'll increase intelligeo 12 to e a det bit of that exp redu.

  Now that I have that squared away, I’ll go from top to bottom. Strength be reduced because that will be one of the primary S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s I will be fog on while I’m living here in the vault. As for what should be, I'll reduce it down to 1 because I'll be able to increase it through a variety of means but mostly with weights and strength training and the proper cultivation of mass ssh a rge amount of protein intake.

  I also might be able to produones and performanhang drugs ter on too sihe vault dwellers have to be able to produce their own meds and chems dowo have been able to survive for this long. And from what I've noticed from the times dad brought me anywhere in the vault, I didn't see the vault dwellers g anything whatsoever so they should possess the ability to produce a multitude of different chems and medies.

  Another idea I’ve e up with while I've been waiting to get older is utilizing stimpaks for their accelerated healing to reduce the recovery time needed for my muscles to repair themselves from w out. If that recovery time is short enough, I should be able to work out the same muscle groups daily, but that's just my hopeful thinking for now. Though, I'll definitely be putting it to the test as soon as I .

  The stimpaks could also have some additional bes like increasing my boy because when microfractures in bones are repaired, they increase the bone's density. If it do that, there's also a possibility that it could strengthen my ligaments too. However, it will take quite a while to see if it possesses either of those effects, thus I'll have to wait till I’m at an age where I start weight training before I actually put any of this to the test.

  With my strength reduced to 1, I'm left with 8 points to spend. So moving on down the list of S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s perception is up . I don't think perception will be as easy a S.P.E.C.I.A.L. to train like strength. Therefore, I’ll dump 5 points into it for now and iure I try to e up with some sort of method to train it.

  tinuing on to the easy one, endurance. I'll be making it a 10 because I will certainly need a ton of stamina to ehe amount of training and shit I’m going to be putting my body through in the years to e. It also helps to be able to take a few more hits than everybody else as well, especially in this world. Another be of allog the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. points to endurance is it should boost my body's natural health regeion, which means I make even mains.

  After going over endurance's many bes in my head, I put the remaining 3 points into it bringing its total to 8. Two points lower than my desired 10 but that's alright I'll be taking the points I need for it from another S.P.E.C.I.A.L. to get it to 10 in a sed here. Ohe 3 points were distributed, I moved on to the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. on the list.

  Charisma is a pretty useful S.P.E.C.I.A.L. ter on. However, I don't think I'll all that muitially, seeing how I’m gono be a hell of a lot more worried about surviving. Aside from that, I'm ed about being able to kill rather than trying to talk to them to resolve something peacefully.

  Something of which I doubt I'll be able to make happen often, even if I was to go down the speech/diplomacy route. I also just improve my charisma iure with the Interaining perk and by retrieving the charisma bobblehead, but that's something I worry about at a ter date.

  Yeah, I'm gonna have to take a pass on intelligence. Alright, time to look at Agility now. I’ll be redug this S.P.E.C.I.A.L. too and taking 4 points from it for the simple reason that I'll be able to improve it through differehods. Such mething anywhere from stuff as basic as running and doing cardio to more advanced exercises like gymnastid w on my stretg to increase my flexibility.

  The moment I had the points taken out of agility, I put 2 points into endurand tinued on down the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. s onto the st remaining one.

  Finally, luck is all that’s left. I'm pretty happy with the current distribution, so I'll add the st 2 points to it, bringing it up to a total of 7. And once I do that, I'll review my current S.P.E.C.I.A.L. distribution again to really make sure I'm happy with their current numbers.

  Distributing the points where they o go, I reviewed my S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s o time and decided the distribution was fine. Ready to get this over with, I selected the pletion button on the holographic s.

  | S.P.E.C.I.A.L. |Strength: 1Perception: 10Endurance: 10Charisma: 5Intelligence: 12Agility: 1Luck: 7

  0 Points Left

  A brief sed ter, after finalizing my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. sele, the holographic s poofed and disappeared. Upon its disappearance, I immediately felt an immediate influx of ges happening all ay body, a feeling simir to having pins and needles across one's body. This went on for a couple of minutes when it appeared to settle down before it abruptly ended. Standing up, the ges were immediately noticeable. My body, for instance, seemed signifitly more sluggish than it reviously.

  As if it wasn’t already bad enough being a 1-year-old baby, now I'm even slower than I was but it doesn't seem by much.

  I'll have to try training so I bring my agility and strength up to a somewhat det amount, otherwise my dad might notiething odd. Although, I doubt I'll be able to raise it much sihere isn't a whole lot of time I'm left aloo my own devices. Haaa, whatever, I'll just do what I when I .

  Several seds ter, cheg out my new and improved self.

  Ohh that's pretty cool, I now have a sort of zoom to my vision and I feel the presence of vault dwellers nearby. That extra perception is gonna be a huge adva in the wastend when I'm old enough aually decide to ve of the vault.

  Hmm, my ability to recall informatioo have been improved drastically. I ow clearly remember all those dotaries and articles I’ve watched and read ba my old world word for word. As well as all the research I did on different panies and their products when I used to be really into how things ticked and were made with extreme crity.

  I even recall quite a few different gun designs/schematics that will be very useful here, along with how to produce microeleics from my old world. Although that tter one will be a long term goal si won’t be all too easy making a lithography mae.

  Hmm, nothing else seems to stand out to me immediately, so I'll roam around the room until dad returns.

  As I was finishing that thought, a presence arrived at the vault door to our home and began opening.

  *kshhhk*

  "Ha ha ha! You’re quite the little explorer, aren’t you?" Dad said, seeing me running about outside the kid pen he left me in.

  "Serves me right f to pen you in! e on over here. I want to show you something!"

  Following him, he directed me over to a small metal table that had at a picture frame atop of it with some text on it

  “See that? It was your mother’s favorite passage. It’s from the bible. Revetion 21:6. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.”

  "Gah."

  “She always loved that passage. All right, e o’s go see if your little friend Amata wants to py…”

  Sigh, I 't wait till I'm older. It's s having to act like a baby.

  As soon as Dad fialking, he immediately picked me up and got a couple of miseous things before he opehe frorance of our home aed it with me in hand.

  He thehe several minutes walking through the gray vault hallways with me in hand to the overseer’s residence while also passing the occasional vault dweller going about their business on our way there.

  Whewo of us arrived at the entrao the overseer’s residence, dad reached his hand towards a button located to the right of the door and pressed it, produg a ring in the overseer’s home a sed ter.

  The both of us then waited for moments before I heard footsteps ing towards the door from within the home. And after another moment, the door opened, revealing the overseer with his daughter Amata in hand in about the same position as me.

  “Good m Alphonse I was w if your little Amata could use a pymate for the day?” My dad said, to which little Amata’s eyes brighte the word pymate.

  “Good m James, I’m sure my little girl could use a pymate. Isn’t that right, my little muffin?” The overseer said while direg a question towards his little girl Amata, who started making happy gurgling baby noises in response.

  Ahh, I’m going to be here for a while, aren’t I. Well, I better try my best to get her tired out so we take a nap and I go home early otherwise I’ll be here all day like my previous time.

  “There you have it, James. My little Amata does indeed need her partner in crime, but I’m sure a pydate isn’t the real reason you’re paying us a visit today, now is it?” The overseer said, implying that my dad was here for other reasons.

  “You’re spot on as ever, Alphonse. I o discuss some things regarding your wife's treatment with you.” My dad answered in a somewhat serious tone of voice with a facial expression refleg that he had something serious to discuss.

  “Well, e on in so we discuss what’s going on with my wife.” The overseer said to my dad while moving out of the doorway so we could enter his residence.

  Dad theered the overseer's home with me in hand and followed the overseer further into his home before the overseer said several seds ter.

  “Ohh, before we start discussing my wife, ut our two little ones in Amata’s py area so we won’t be distracted.”

  “That sounds good, since what I o discuss with you is retively serious.”

  The two dads then dropped both I and Amata off in her py area before they walked off into another area of the overseer’s home to discuss whatever was going on with the overseer’s wife.

  I hope Amata’s mother will be alright, but if this world follows the events that took pce within the game, she will die retively soon. It's unfortunate, however there is not anything I do to ge or help since I’m currently a toddler and still have o no medical experience whatsoever.

  Although I do possess a det bit of medical knowledge now, thanks to my ability to recall what I saw previously clearly, as if I had the book or material right in front of me. Regardless, the information I possess is probably nothing that help the situation out too much, if at all.

  I thought, watg the both of them walk off together.

  A few seds passed while I was thinking when I heard Amata moving behind me and making noises.

  I suppose it’s time to do my job and py with Amata. Sigh. Hopefully, she will tire out sooha pydate, but knowing my luck, that isn’t going to happen. Maybe the 2 points I put into my luck earlier when I was using the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. book will help with that some, but I have a feeling it won’t be of much help sadly, haa.

  I thehe few hours pying with Amata and trying to keep her eained while both of our dads were off in some other part of the home discussing. After half an hour had passed, I noticed Amata was beginning to tire.

  Finally, I take a rest. I'm so happy it didn't take nearly as long as st time, so I must be improving aing good at this, I guess. Well, let me get her moved over to the cushioned area so we ap and I go home sooner.

  Finished with my thoughts, I started bringing Amata over to the cushioned area. After a short bit of stumbling over and some baby noises from Amata, we reached the sleeping area. Ready to cate zs, I id her down on the cushions and grabbed one of the nearby bs and covered her with it.

  I then grabbed another and id dowo her with a b of my own while her eyes started to close. Shortly thereafter, she was out like a light and I followed suit not too much ter because I was quite tired as well from pying with her for the st few hours.

  God knows when I found myself woken up again by my dear ole dad, James, to be brought home. I soon arrived bae and when I did and got put in my crib, I quickly fell back asleep.